Don't be too hard on the Dell-heads in your family. 4 years into your Terminator and you are now set to spend about $150 to upgrade it into a W7 64 bit machine. They won't be able to pull that off.
Consider going with a Corsair solid state HD too. $200 and you will be impressed.
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